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1. Favorite book and why?
Perelandra (Voyage to Venus). The most exciting work of fiction I have ever read. A re-creation of Paradise, with Adam and Eve in their unfallen state. This book also contains what I believe to be one of the most original but utterly convincing descriptions of angelic powers in modern literature.

2. Least favorite book and why?
I don't think I have a 'least favorite', but 'Til We Have Faces' is a rather dark, brooding, and quite violent romance - a retelling of the Greek legend of Cupid and Psyche. It is a tale of pure love, jealous love, betrayal, and the ache in the heart that results from our unresolved emotional needs. It does not have the 'uplift' of the rest of Lewis' fiction, but it does leave me pensive and peturbed.

Book Reviews
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The Great Divorce
Out of the Silent Planet - Space Trilogy 1
Perelandra - Space Trilogy 2
That Hideous Strength - Space Trilogy 3
The Magician's Nephew - Chronicles of Narnia 1
The Horse and His Boy - Chronicles of Narnia 3
Prince Caspian - Chronicles of Narnia 4
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - Chronicles of Narnia 5
The Silver Chair - Chronicles of Narnia 6
The Last Battle - Chronicles of Narnia 7
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Robert Alter
Brother Andrew
Genevieve de Gaulle Anthonioz
Virginia M. Axline
The Beatles
Corrie Ten Boom
Alain de Botton
Nicholas Wapshott and George Brock
Russ Busby
Tony Campolo
Humphrey Carpenter
G.K. Chesterton
David Coomes
Nicky Cruz
Alina Fernandez
Anne Frank
Viktor E. Frankl
Anna Fynn
Cyrus H. Gordon
Douglas H. Gresham
John Hare
Harry Harmer
Brother Yun and Paul Hathaway
Billy Hayes and William Hoffer
Roger Lancelyn Green & Walter Hooper
Aldous Huxley
Ji-Li Jiang
Carolyn Keefe
Laurie Lee
C.S. Lewis
Rabindranath R. Maharaj
Mark H. McCormack
Peter B. Medawar
Charles Moseley
George Orwell
M. Scott Peck
Gervase Phinn
George Pitcher
Lisa Potts
Helen Roseveare
George Sayer
Ian Schott
J.R.R. Tolkien
Sheldon Vanauken
David W.M. Vaughan
Garry Wills
Carol Wimber

History (in beta)
William Foxwell Albright
John M. Allegro
Philip Ardagh
Bob Brier
Richard W. Bulliet
Lucilla Burn
John Chadwick
Jean-Marie Chauvet
Edward Chiera
Nicholas Clapp
Michael David Coogan
Adrian Curtis
Graham I. Davies
William G. Dever
Alfred Duggan
John Kenneth Galbraith
Richard J. Gillings
Cyrus H. Gordon
Philip Steele and Jenny Hall
Alexander Heidel
Werner Keller
Josephine Laffin
C. S. Lewis
Miriam Lichtheim
Titus Livius
John Man
Amihai Mazar
Josh McDowell
Alan R. Millard
T.C. Mitchell
William Ryan and Walter Pitman
Maurice Pope
Richard Parkinson & Stephen Quirke
Cyrus H. Gordon and Gary A. Rendsburg
Joseph Sheppherd
Robert B. Silvers
Wolfram von Soden
Bryan Sykes
Carsten Peter Thiede
Joyce Tyldesley
Ian MacGregor with Rodney Tyler
Jean Vercoutter
Paul G. Bahn & Jean Vertut
Chaim Bermant and Michael Weitzman
Hilary Wilson
Ian Wilson
T.P. Wiseman

Literature
Aesop
Samuel Beckett
Heinrich Boll
John Bunyan
Albert Camus
Daniel Defoe
Rhett Ellis
Ernest Hemingway
Homer
Franz Kafka
C.S. Lewis
Edith Nesbit
George Orwell
R.B. Parkinson
J.D. Salinger
William Shakespeare
Lawrence Treanor
Oscar Wilde
Thornton Wilder
Lu Xun

Romance
Aldous Huxley

Science Fiction
Poul Anderson
F. Anstey
Ray Bradbury
Arthur C. Clarke
Susan Cooper
Michael Crichton
Philip K. Dick
Raymond E. Feist
Alan Garner
Kenneth Grahame
Frank Herbert
Aldous Huxley
Franz Kafka
Clive King
Madeleine L'Engle
Stephen R. Lawhead
Ursula K. LeGuin
David Lindsay
Barry B. Longyear
George MacDonald
George R.R. Martin
Edith Nesbit
Larry Niven
Apollonius of Rhodes
J.K. Rowling
N.K. Sandars
Robert Silverberg
G.P. Taylor
J.R.R. Tolkien
Charles Williams
John Wyndham

Thriller/Action
Peter Benchley
John Buchan
G.K. Chesterton
Erskine Childers
Michael Connelly
Stephen Crane
Alfred Duggan
Alan Gordon
John Grisham
Madeleine L'Engle
Robert Louis Stevenson
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